Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm is a town and civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, as well as the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It pushes the north slope of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock and around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The town has a population of around 4,000 and also belongs to a wider civil parish which covers a huge country hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) containing within it the smaller sized settlement of Quarrier's Village, originally developed as a 19th-century household orphans' house. The area surrounding the town was worked out in ancient times as well as emerged as part of a feudal culture with the parish separated in between separate estates for much of its history. The village itself continued to be little, giving solutions to neighboring farm areas and also working as a spiritual center for the church. The name of the village derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, suggesting the dedication of its church to St Columba. The parish church was mentioned in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, as well as it sits on the site of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was constructed in the church as well as is noteworthy for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, complying with the resident Lyle family's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding in between the noble families of Kilmacolm was prevalent in the Middle Ages, as well as in the 16th and also 17th centuries, the parish once more came to the focus of the Crown for offering assistance to forbidden spiritual Covenanters. The personality of the town altered considerably in the Victorian period, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. A number of Kilmacolm's modern-day buildings were created in between this date and the outbreak of World War I. The emergence of such transportation links made it possible for the village to broaden as a wealthy dorm room town offering the nearby metropolitan centres of Glasgow, Paisley as well as Greenock. The economic climate of the town showed this population modification, moving far from its typical dependence on agriculture to providing tertiary industry solutions to locals as well as site visitors.
